Ravinder
Ravinder or Ravindra is an Indian given name. A short form of the name is Ravi. Notable people with this name include:Rachin Ravindra, New Zealand cricketer Ravinder Baliala, member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly Ravinder Bhalla, American civil rights lawyer, and mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey Ravinder Bhogal, restaurateur, food writer, and chef Ravinder Bopara, cricketer Ravinder Chadha,…
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Meaning & Origin of Ravinder
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ravinder or Ravindra is an Indian given name. A short form of the name is Ravi. Notable people with this name include:Rachin Ravindra, New Zealand cricketer Ravinder Baliala, member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly Ravinder Bhalla, American civil rights lawyer, and mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey Ravinder Bhogal, restaurateur, food writer, and chef Ravinder Bopara, cricketer Ravinder Chadha,…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
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The Story of Ravinder
As a girl name
American parents first put Ravinder on the record books as a girl name in 1984, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1984, when 5 Ravinders were born — ranking #10,421 that year. Ravinder last appeared in the published SSA data in 1984, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 5 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
The earliest SSA record of Ravinder as a boy name dates back to 1961, when 5 babies received it. 1987 was its biggest year on record, with 10 newborns named Ravinder — #4,239 in the national rankings. About 33% of every Ravinder on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Ravinder last appeared in the published SSA data in 2002, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 93 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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About the name Ravinder
Ravinder is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1961 and has accumulated 93 births in the dataset. Ravinder's peak popularity came in 1987 when it ranked #4,239. Use the chart and map above to compare Ravinder's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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